ahííjééʼ

== Navajo == === Etymology === ʼa- (“away”) + -hi- (thematic) + -yí- (“directed at”, combining form of yíní- in the 3rd person) + -∅- (classifier) + -jééʼ (neuter perfective stem of root -JÉÉʼ, “to lie”) === Verb === ahííjééʼ to lie with part of the body extending away and out of sight (of 3+ actors) to lie "partly in and partly out" (as puppies poking out from under a bed) ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Neuter perfective (yi) === References === Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987), The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 68. Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 263